May 2019
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Ep100: Rob Sand Joins Our 100th Episode Celebration
It’s Iowa Starting Line’s 100th podcast episode! Presidential candidates, past guests, and friends of Starting Line call in to join the program. And we interview State Auditor Rob Sand on his latest statewide town hall trip, how Democrats should talk about faith, and whether Sand will run against Joni Ernst in 2020.
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The Old And The New Of Joe Biden’s 2020 Pitch In Iowa
He’s back. Embarking on his third attempt to win the presidency, former Vice President Joe Biden returned to Iowa this week for public events in Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Iowa City, and Des Moines. He enters the incredibly crowded 2020 Democratic primary as the clear front-runner in most recent polling. Iowans have seen Biden up close…
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Sign Up For Starting Line’s Caucus Round-Up Email Newsletter
Want to keep up to date on everything happening in the Iowa Caucus each week? Iowa Starting Line has you covered! We will be launching a thrice-weekly subscription-based email next week. Our Starting Line Caucus Round-Up emails will come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning, and will put all the information you need to…
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Ep99: What Passed & What Didn’t At The Statehouse This Year
The Iowa Starting Line Podcast host Pat Rynard talks with Statehouse reporters Erin Murphy and Caroline Cummings about what last-minute bills made it through the legislative session this year, which wrapped up over the weekend.
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Free Speech Is Sometimes Uncomfortable
The First Amendment isn’t long, but it certainly packs a lot of angst into those few words: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition…
